Ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch defeated one of the extraterrestrial hunters in 1987’s Predator before calling him “ONE UGLY MOTHERFUCKER,” a chosen few have lived to tell the tale through a combination of brains and brawn.
If Yoked Carl Weathers couldn’t defeat one of these aliens, what chance would any of us have? The odds are certainly stacked against anyone going toe to toe with a Predator, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to come away with your skull and spinal column still attached to your body. Keep in mind, one of these guys still loses their arm while fighting a Predator:
Beyond that, the Predators routinely go after the baddest dudes on the planet-the kind of people responsible for the manliest (and most meme-worthy) handshake in the history of cinema. The dire situation is pretty self-explanatory: We’ve got an alien species that visits Earth to hunt humans for sport with an overwhelming advantage in strength, stealth, and weaponry. (If you put me through half of what Robert Redford endured in All Is Lost, I will, in fact, be lost.) But not all life-or-death scenarios are created equal, and the enduring thrill of the Predator franchise-a wonderfully delirious cocktail of slasher and action movie tropes-is the sheer improbability of staying alive.
One of the joys of watching a movie in which characters are scratching and clawing for survival is wondering how you’d handle the same nightmarish scenario.
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